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BEST EMPLOYEE RIGHTS ATTORNEY IN OC

5.0 stars

Posted by ryan February 3, 2014

I needed a labor law attorney and luckily found Melissa through the internet. She was the best! She was very reasonable and fair when it came to fee and helped me get the settlement that I deserved. I would definitely recommend her if you need a lawyer.

Melissa Petrofsky Review

5.0 stars

Posted by Phong Nguyen August 18, 2010

Melissa was very responsive, was very sympathetic towards my needs and knew my case well and all of the intimate details. She came extremely prepared at the mediations armed with a wealth of pertinent data. She explained to me our strategy and asked for my input and coached me during the entire legal process and mediation.

About me

Melissa’s legal career revolves around one idea: empowerment. Legal situations are impossible to navigate without knowledge, expertise, and passion. One cannot meet and defeat legal hurdles unarmed. Melissa has the intellect, strategy, and drive to achieve her clients’ goals.

Employment law has been Melissa’s area of expertise for nearly a decade. She is driven by the desire to expose and punish unfair employers. Whether representing a sexual harassment victim, a whistleblower, or the victim of racial profiling, Melissa uses her wisdom, experience, and empathy to avidly pursue her clients’ rights.

She has sued private employers, religious organizations, and government agencies. Melissa has successfully litigated against every major employment defense firm in California. She has prevailed against attacks on the pleading, discovery motions, and dispositive motions. In fact, she has never lost a dispositive motion before any judge in California, in either state or federal court. Her sterling track record is due to her savvy approach: she doesn’t take on a fight that she can’t win.

She has settled cases before every major mediation service provider and every arbitration service. She is also on a first-name basis with many of southern California’s most acclaimed employment law mediators, including retired judges. One of Melissa’s guiding principles is to find the right mediator for each case, which can require months of negotiation with the other side. What Melissa provides every client is the tailored, impassioned advocacy she would provide to a family member.

Melissa’s guiding principle has always been to empower her clients by using her legal skills to advocate for truth and justice. Her clients have ranged from part-time sales clerks to CEOs, from teenagers to great-grandmothers. Sometimes, her clients have suffered emotionally. Other times, they’ve lost hundreds of thousands of dollars because of the illegal acts of their boss. Melissa approaches every case with zealous advocacy -- she understands that every case is a person’s life.

She has successfully managed a robust caseload with as many as 50+ matters simultaneously. However, her preference is to keep her caseload smaller, in order to provide boutique-style legal services.

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Melissa and I attended law school together, and she has also assisted me in a number of legal matters, giving me insight into her abilities and character. She is a zealous advocate for her clients, and extremely knowledgeable in employment law and wrongful termination. I highly endorse her.